Meaning not yet researched.
Remy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 781 in 2025. Its best rank was #356 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #356 in 2022; #408 in 2025. About 67% of babies named Remy in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#408 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #356.
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Remy: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 781 boys in 2025. Peak: #356 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 924 (2022).
In 2025, 781 US boys were named Remy, making it the 408th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #400 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 807 boys named Remy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #356, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 924. For comparison, it was #522 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 390 US girls were named Remy, making it the 721st most common girls’ name of the year, down 40 places from #681 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 419 girls named Remy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #496, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 617. For comparison, it was #843 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Remy in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 20,746 US babies have been given the name, 40% of them girls and 60% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,187 babies named Remy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,899 US boys were named Remy; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 924. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,187 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Remy ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #162 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Remi (27,066 babies since 1880) and Remmy (970 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ramy, Remo and Rimya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ramy (1,131), Remo (1,013), Rimya (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Remy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #162 | #183 |
| Washington | 38 | #212 | #330 |
| Connecticut | 14 | #246 | — |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #254 | #498 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #260 | — |
| California | 139 | #267 | #393 |
| Minnesota | 21 | #302 | #460 |
| Colorado | 20 | #325 | #512 |
| New York | 53 | #335 | #641 |
| Illinois | 31 | #348 | #574 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #350 | #261 |
| Nevada | 9 | #355 | #383 |
| Oregon | 11 | #368 | #623 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #375 | #506 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #387 | #656 |
| Utah | 12 | #402 | #501 |
| Missouri | 16 | #416 | #649 |
| Iowa | 8 | #437 | — |
| Michigan | 20 | #438 | #624 |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #453 | #696 |
| Arizona | 16 | #456 | #483 |
| Florida | 39 | #475 | #560 |
| Ohio | 22 | #494 | #555 |
| Georgia | 22 | #496 | #534 |
| Kansas | 7 | #506 | #502 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #533 | #817 |
| Virginia | 14 | #551 | #772 |
| Texas | 54 | #586 | #553 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #612 | #451 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #661 | #581 |
| Maryland | 7 | #680 | #571 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #682 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #928 | #567 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 390 | #721 | 781 | #408 |
| 2024 | 419 | #681 | 807 | #400 |
| 2023 | 457 | #644 | 817 | #390 |
| 2022 | 500 | #600 | 924 | #356 |
| 2021 | 554 | #552 | 904 | #360 |
| 2020 | 617 | #496 | 872 | #356 |
| 2019 | 571 | #539 | 743 | #417 |
| 2018 | 586 | #536 | 721 | #426 |
| 2017 | 505 | #596 | 680 | #452 |
| 2016 | 398 | #714 | 650 | #470 |
| 2015 | 333 | #843 | 554 | #522 |
| 2014 | 282 | #952 | 425 | #622 |
| 2013 | 218 | #1,119 | 303 | #753 |
| 2012 | 196 | #1,242 | 237 | #886 |
| 2011 | 180 | #1,309 | 236 | #883 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,686 | 243 | #869 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,693 | 206 | #972 |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,852 | 192 | #1,008 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,968 | 147 | #1,204 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,505 | 103 | #1,488 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,176 | 110 | #1,370 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,986 | 111 | #1,333 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,277 | 105 | #1,323 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,219 | 105 | #1,294 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,455 | 92 | #1,385 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,935 | 71 | #1,652 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,955 | 84 | #1,406 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,100 | 91 | #1,314 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,999 | 95 | #1,230 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,583 | 79 | #1,366 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,076 | 72 | #1,402 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,159 | 64 | #1,491 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,169 | 46 | #1,845 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,153 | 47 | #1,798 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,729 | 59 | #1,497 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,681 | 59 | #1,482 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,643 | 55 | #1,511 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,783 | 40 | #1,762 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,701 | 26 | #2,257 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,435 | 20 | #2,671 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,843 | 29 | #2,004 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,303 | 26 | #2,085 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,422 | 24 | #2,196 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,297 | 33 | #1,762 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,511 | 16 | #2,866 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,477 | 22 | #2,347 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,638 | 19 | #2,540 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,622 | 14 | #3,039 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,024 | 13 | #3,160 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,298 | 7 | #4,805 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,321 | 12 | #3,201 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,100 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,717 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,089 | 8 | #3,888 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,041 | 10 | #3,309 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,854 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,847 | 6 | #4,308 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,095 | 10 | #2,874 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,328 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,361 | 6 | #3,850 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,734 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,563 | 9 | #3,009 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,390 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,811 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,314 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,279 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,784 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,777 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,467 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,470 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,408 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,701 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #3,092 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,150 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,137 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,077 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,919 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,680 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,060 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,836 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,048 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,110 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,682 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,101 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,197 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,747 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,193 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).